SteveShannon

I’ll make it easier for you. Here’s the interpretation. I suspect you’re referring to the part that I underlined: A GMRS user can expect a communications range of one to twenty-five miles depending on station class, terrain, and repeater use. GMRS stations cannot be interconnected with the public switched telephone network or any other network for the purpose of carrying GMRS communications, but these networks can be used for remote control of repeater stations. In other words, repeaters may not be linked via the internet—an example of an “other network” in the rules—to extend the range of the communications across a large geographic area. Linking multiple repeaters to enable a repeater outside the communications range of the handheld or mobile device to retransmit messages violates sections 95.1733(a)(8) and 95.1749 of the Commission’s rules, and potentially other rules in 47 C.F.R. Repeaters may be connected to the telephone network or other networks only for purposes of remote control of a GMRS station, not for carrying communication signals.

Au contraire, the rules tell us exactly what a fixed station is and the rules tell us exactly what the limits are. You just haven’t extrapolated from the rules how you might use one. Others have described how they could be used. A pair of fixed stations could be dedicated to provide an intercom between two households such as on a family farm, for example. Or for telemetry and control.

No, they said repeaters cannot be connected to a network for the purposes of linking. They said nothing about radio links.

It was a nice thing for him to do. He didn’t lecture anyone; he just tried to make it easier for us. You’ve been grumbling about things lately. Are you becoming infected with the socalgmrs bug?

When I bought mine the cable came with. Call Radioddity and ask them to send you a cable.

Nor should anybody post the details about your repeater here for you. If you become a member you can do it yourself. That also enables the mechanism people can use to contact you with questions or to notify you of problems.

This! Anybody who has multiple copies of the same radio can very easily test whether the problem is with their programming or with the radio by cloning a working radio of the same model.

Not me. I only have the Radioddity version. RT Systems works well there though.

I recommend that you add @Socalgmrs to your “ignore list”. Life gets better. Personally I prefer to have a link to the CFR page on the internet rather than capturing a point in time with PDFs: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-D/part-95

The context of the paragraph you copied and pasted @WSEZ864’s line above from was clearly referring to their ham radio repeater, but for GMRS, transmitting on the repeater input frequency is allowed for communication through a repeater, for brief testing, or by Fixed Stations according to the regulations: Our ham radio club also goes simplex, especially now when the repeater is down, but we do so on the repeater output frequency.

I think that “Unit Number” has been there for a while, but I know Rich changed the site so multiple users sharing the same call sign could register. But I don’t think it uses the Unit Number. I could easily be wrong.

Which club?

Welcome from another Montanan! I’m in Butte.

Trump just announced the following: From ABC: “BREAKING: President Trump has announced that countries subject to reciprocal tariffs will have a lowered 10% rate for 90 days. This does not apply to China, which Trump says is now subject to a 125% tariff rate following their retaliatory tariff on the U.S.”

Gil (WRUU653) found the right answer. A club can assign different numbers to each member to make it easier to tell them apart. I have not noticed anyone taking advantage of that.

Was that you pushing the shopping cart and wearing bunny slippers the other day?

What brand and model of radio? What’s the frequency? What channel is it assigned to? How did you program it?

I missed the hat. That’s a classic!!!

This is my experience as well. Most hams are welcoming GMRS users. I’m sure some of that is motivated by a hope that people will want to expand into amateur radio.

That sounds more like a language barrier. Is it still under warranty?

According to the first sentence it’s for the GMRS-Pro or UV-Pro. You might want to look at the BTECH site.

I have no idea if it’s related, but BTECH posted this notice: Monday, April 7, 2025 ARLINGTON, SD – If you own a GMRS-PRO or UV-PRO from BTECH, the new 0.8.3 firmware update is worth your attention and comes packed with fixes and improvements. One of the biggest highlights is the UV-PRO’s refreshed display, which is much easier to read in direct sunlight. Both radios also get a fix for a stubborn receive problem that showed up when NOAA alerts were enabled. This bug sometimes caused weaker reception and odd scanning behavior. It’s finally gone, and the radios now handle NOAA alerts the way they were always meant to. Below, you’ll find a full breakdown of what’s changed and why it matters.

They have 1035 transmitters. Currently 20 transmitters are down.

How about we steer very clear of politics?

The price at the border.